Title: The Bang Bang Club, snapshots from a hidden war
Photographer(s): Greg Marinovich, João Silva, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek
Writer(s): Greg Marinovich, João Silva, Archibishop Desmond Tutu
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Publisher(s): Basic Books, New York, U.S.A.
Year: 2000
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Language(s): English
Pages: 254
Size: 15 x 23 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: South Africa, 1990-1994
ISBN: 978-0465044139
The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994 during the transition from the apartheid system to democracy.
This book The Bang-Bang Club is the story of these young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photographs of the period. In this stunning new book, the group’s two surviving members recount their political, emotional, and personal journeys through these violent years as South Africa moved toward democracy. Along the way we accompany them on free-lance assignments to other war-torn regions, including the former Yugoslavia and the Sudan, where one member of the group shoots what has become a world-famous photograph of a starving child stalked by a vulture. The boldness that earned the group its nickname, that prompted them to rush headlong into dangerous situations in pursuit of an image, forces them to consider difficult questions that lie at the heart of their work: When does their sense of humanity overwhelm their ambition and professional duties? When do they put aside their cameras and their impartiality and get involved? These are the moral dilemmas that the Bang-Bang Club grappled with on a daily basis.
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